sling hash (or plates)

From eight to two I pace the chessboard floor behind the counter, eying plummeting coffee levels, slinging hash, and serving bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwiches, salt, pepper, ketchup, a smile and a pinch of sass.

The play's driving force is Terry, an alcoholic, out-of-work actor slinging hash at a mob-owned diner.

slings and arrows

Does the above general definition of this all-important institution of higher learning, to distastefully paraphrase William Shakespeare, suffer from the slings and arrows of outrageous idealism?

Thirteen years later, the band has survived continual line-up and label changes, weathered the slings and arrows of litigation and ignorance, and all the while managed to further create and define a unique sound.

Origen

When referring to a loop used as a support or weapon, sling is probably from Dutch. The expression slings and arrows, ‘adverse factors or circumstances’, comes from the ‘To be or not to be’ speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet: ‘Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them.’

Origen

When referring to a loop used as a support or weapon, sling is probably from Dutch. The expression slings and arrows, ‘adverse factors or circumstances’, comes from the ‘To be or not to be’ speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet: ‘Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them.’